Amy Richards is News Director for Townsquare Media-Cheyenne. She has many years of experience covering local news and is well known in the state capitol for her Legislative coverage. BA-English State University of New York. My favorite color is pink.
Amy Richards
BLM’s First Wild Horse Ecosanctuary is Open For Tours This Summer
The Deerwood Ranch, the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) first wild horse ecosanctuary, is offering tours this summer. The 4,000 acre ranch, located about 30 miles west of Laramie, provides long term care for 227 wild horses.
Owners Rich and Jana Wilson will drive interested people around their ranch to view the wild horses on Friday and Saturday beginning June 28th and running through August 31s
Brenda Arnold Leaving the County, Heading to The State
Laramie County Assessor Brenda Arnold is resigning her position with the county effective June 30th to take a position with the state.Arnold has accepted a position as Administrator of the Property Tax Division for the Wyoming Department of Revenue on July 1st...
Enzi and Others Want OMB to Give Accounting of UN Contributions
Every year, the federal government gives billions of dollars to the United Nations (UN) without having a full accounting of the contributions to the international body. U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., joined Senator Mike Lee, R-Utah, and others recently in an effort to require the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to annually report contributions to the UN from every federal agency, including
Governor Mead Launches Statewide Anti-Impaired Driving Campaign
Governor Matt Mead says the Governor's Council on Impaired Driving is launching a statewide campaign to reduce drunk driving related fatalities and injuries in wyoming.
The Governor says the new multimedia campaign is " hard hitting and specific to Wyoming...
Crop Duster Crash Lands Near Pine Bluffs
A Montana man, who was crop dusting in eastern Laramie County for Circle S Aviation, crash landed his plane this morning about a mile west of the Pine Bluffs Airport. Laramie County Sheriff's Department spokesman Gerry Luce says the pilot, identified as Mark Nardin from Emigrant, Montana was able to walk away from the crash...
Governor Mead Proclaims EMS Week in Wyoming
Governor Matt Mead proclaimed May 19th-25th Emergency Medical Services Week in Wyoming. The governor says Wyoming residents can take comfort in knowing that well trained, caring men and women are only a phone call away. He says emergency medical technicians (emts), paramedics, and first responders, many of them volunteers, devote countless hours to keeping their communities, including very rural
Gov. Mead Unveils His Energy Strategy
(Amy Richards/TSM)Gov. Matt Mead has unveiled a state energy policy "Leading the Change:Wyoming's Action Plan for Energy, Environment and Economy:" Governor Mead said in the absence of a federal energy plan, Wyoming needed to develop its own plan...
Fallen Officers Remembered
Law Enforcement officers from across the state were in Cheyenne Saturday for the 2nd Annual Fallen Officers Memorial at the Capitol building.
Lummis at Hearing on Benghazi [VIDEO]
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee heard testimony from three public servants’ firsthand accounts of the September 11th, 2012 Benghazi attacks that claimed the lives of four U.S. citizens including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens...
Lubnau: Know The Facts About SF 104
House Speaker Tom Lubnau says there has been a lot of disinformation regarding the passage of SF 104, the bill passed by the Wyoming Legislature that removed Superintendent of Public Instruction Cindy Hill as head of the Wyoming Department of Education...